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mouth until it touches the skull midway between the 

 eyes. Use a knife which is not more than two inches 

 long, one-fourth inch wide, with a thin, flat handle, a 

 sharp point, and a straight cutting edge. The U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



TRESTLE AND FLUME AT TAGS, N. M. 



STOP SAN JOSE SCALE 



San Jose scale is one of the worst insect pests 

 attacking orchard trees in this country. Undoubtedly 

 the best remedy for this scale is a thorough treatment 

 with lime-sulphur mixture late in the winter or early 

 in the spring, before the buds begin to open, on the 

 trees. If home-made lime-sulphur sprays are used, 

 probably there is no better formula than the follow- 

 ing: 



Good lump lime, 15 pounds. 



Flowers of sulphur, 15 pounds. 



\Yater 50 gallons. 



The lime should be slacked in warm water and, 

 as soon as the slacking has been well started, the 

 sulphur should be added and enough water kept in 

 the receptacle to keep the mass thin and sloppy. Boil 

 for at least forty-five minutes, or until the liquid is a 

 deep brick red in color ; then dilute to' fifty gallons and 

 apply at once. C. P. Gillette, Colorado Agricultural 

 College. Fort Collins, Colo. 



FATTEN AND SELL OLD HENS 



Any old hens that you suspect of being too aged 

 for profitable egg production should be promptly mar- 

 keted before the flock is fed up for winter laying. Old 

 infirm roosters should be sent over the same route. 

 But feed all of them a while before selling, confining 

 them in a pen to themselves about 10 days prior to the 

 time for marketing. 



THE HOME CANNERY 



A question of paramount importance to every 

 farmer in Idaho today is whether the installation of a 

 small cannery is a profitable undertaking. Can the 

 by-products that go to waste at home annually be 

 utilized and sold at a profit? The results of our ex- 

 periments thus far seem to indicate that an undertak- 

 ing of this kind would be profitable, especially for 

 t'h.i-e not having access to commercial canneries. 



As an illustration we will take the home canning 

 of string beans. The overhead charge for canning a 

 No. 2 can of beans this year was 7 l-3c per can. This 

 included shipping, blanching, canning, soldering, tip- 

 ping, processing, cost of can, etc. There are 56 pounds 

 to the bushel and it takes approximately ^ pound to 

 till one can. hence one bushel would fill 74 2-pound 

 cans. Figuring 100 bu. per acre would give 740 2- 

 pound cans per acre. At 7 l-3c per can it would cost 

 S532.70 per acre for canning. At lOc per can, our 

 selling price, the amount would be $740, or in other 

 words, by running beans through a home cannery, the 

 profit per acre would be $207.30 C. C. Vincent, 

 Acting Horticulturist, Idaho Experiment Stations. 



DON'T RUSH THE GARDEN 



It does not pay to be in too big a hurry to get 

 the garden started. Manuring is of first importance, 

 and all of the garden needs a good application. Then 



The above halftone shows a trestle erected by the Klauer Manufac- 

 turing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, over Hondo Canyon near Taos, New 

 Mexico. The trestle is 80 feet high and attention is called to the curve 

 of flume on trestle. Another feature of this flume is the use of steel 

 crossbars supporting the running board, which is seen in illustration. 

 This flume is used for carrying water to irrigate 6,000 acres of the best 

 land in the Taos valley. Many difficulties have been encountered in 

 securing water for this tract, all of which have been overcome. 



it should be well plowed. Plant the seeds in long 

 rows, as they are easier to cultivate in that way, par- 

 ticularly if the cultivation is done with a wheel hoe. 

 With such a tool the rows can be closer together than 

 where a horse-drawn cultivator is used. 



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Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, 

 etc., of Irrigation Age, published monthly at Chicago, Illi- 

 nois, required by the act of August 24, 1912. 



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Editor D. H. Anderson, 30 N. Dearborn St.. Chicago. 



Managing Editor George J. Scharschug. 



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